Pocket device



March 23, 1965 R- 'rH M JR 3,174,157

POCKET DEVICE Filed Aug. 27, 1963 IN VENTOR.

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United States Patent 3,174,157 POCKET DEVICE Waddy R. Thomson, Jr., 319 Crescent Ave., Greenville, S.C. Filed Aug. 27, 1963, Ser. No. 304,871 4 Claims. (Cl. 2-279) This invention relates to a display device for suit pockets and the like, especially mens suit breast pockets.

The invention is particularly useful to simulate the appearance of handkerchiefs having multicolored sections of the type known as silk squares or silk pufis. Prior display devices utilize pocket insert portions which may be used as holders for glasses, notebooks and the like, but which offer only a single edge for the reception of the ornamental portion.

Accordingly, it is an important object of the present invention to provide a pocket ornament having a plurality of edges for attaching the ornamental portions thereto, making possible simple adjustments in height, and offering overlapping portions to make selected colors predominate.

The invention offers other advantages in that the ornamental portions are easy to arrange, the device is less bulky than the handkerchief itself, and is more easily kept in place.

Another object of the invention is to provide a versatile pocket display device which may be reversed to make one or another color predominate, and in which the display portions are separately adjustable as to height.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a pocket insert for readily positioning a display portion constructed of textile material in which the textile material may be easily washed and suspended by the pocket insert portion for drying.

The construction designed to carry out the invention will be hereinafter described, together with other features thereof.

The invention will be more readily understood from a reading of the following specification and by reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part thereof, wherein an example of the invention is shown and wherein:

FIGURE 1 is a front elevation illustrating a pocket display device constructed in accordance with the present invention in the breast pocket of a mans suit,

FIGURE 2 is an enlarged front elevation of a display device constructed in accordance with the present invention,

FIGURE 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 33 in FIGURE 2, and

FIGURE 4 is a side elevation of the device illustrated in FIGURE 2.

The drawing illustrates a display device for suit pockets and the like. A plurality of superposed flaps A and B are provided with offset edges. Means C joins the flaps to form a unitary pocket insert portion of such Width as to be received within a suit pocket. A member D is carried for slidable adjustment upon the upper portion of each of said flaps, each of said members has a free upper end portion of width comparable to a fold of a display handkerchief. A portion of textile material E, comparable to a fold of a handkerchief, is fastened to each of Thus, the display may be easily positioned and kept in place in a variety of given pockets and various portions of the display emphasized as desired.

FIGURE 1 illustrates a pocket device positioned in the breast pocket of a mans suit. It will be noted that the pocket insert portion which includes the flaps A and B rests adjacent the bottom of the pocket 10. Thus, the

pocket insert portion together with the members D which are slidably positioned thereon, keeps the display portions E in place in the pocket 10.

The flaps A and B are preferably substantially rectangular in shape and are constructed from a relatively stiff, but somewhat flexible plastic sheet. The sheet is folded at an angle in an intermediate portion thereof, as at C so that one of the side edges 11 of the member A overlaps the adjacent side 12 of the member B, and so that the side edge 13 of the member B overlaps the adjacent side edge 14 of the member A. The folded portion C thus forms a means for joining the flaps to form the unitary portion which is received within the suit pocket. This is important because display portions B may include textile elements of different colors. For example, the display portion 15 may be white, while the display portion 16 may be black. These are presently popular colors often displayed when wearing a silk puff. It is evident, for example, that in the arrangement illustrated in FIGURES 1 and 2 black would predominate. If the device were reversed, white would predominate.

The members D are preferably constructed of simulated leather or some suitable material, and include front portions 17 and rear portions 18 which may be secured together by heat sealing along the edges so as to form envelope like arrangements. The envelope like arrange ments are open at the bottom for reception upon the flaps, and open at the top to receive the display portions 15 and 16, respectively. The display portion 15 is illustrated as being sewn in place by the stitching 15a, while the display portion 16 is joined by sewing as at 16a. It is important that the envelope formed by the members D have a fairly close fit with the respective flaps A and B so that once the position of the member D is adjusted thereon, it Will remain frictionally engaged therewith. In accomplishing the adjustment, the members A and B are generally flexed along a longitudinal axis so as to permit sliding of the member D thereon. Thus, the display portions may be adjusted to the same or different relative heights.

While a preferred embodiment of the invention has been described using specific terms, such description is for illustrative purposes only, and it is to be understood that changes and variations may be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A display device for suit pockets and the like including, a pocket insert portion constructed of relatively stiff flexible material and being substantially rectangular in shape, said pocket insert portion having a permanent fold at an angle in an intermediate portion to form first and second flaps with offset side edges on each side thereof, a side edge of said first flap being offset with respect to said second flap and extending over the adjacent side edge of said second flap and forming an acute angle therewith, the acute angle formed between said side edge, the other having its apex at the fold, side edge of said second flap being offset extending under the adjacent side edge of said first flap forming an acute angle therewith comparable to said first acute angle also having its apex at the fold, said insert portion being of such width as to be received within a suit pocket and having upper free ends opposite the fold, and a substantially identical portion of textile material folded in the shape of a single puff carried by each of the flaps across and adjacent the free ends thereof, each portion being of a diiferent solid contrasting color, whereby the puffs are arranged in overlapping relation with one puff extending laterally of the other at an angle corresponding to that described above, and whereby the display may be easily positioned and kept in place in a suit pocket and selected sides of the display emphasized as desired.

2. A display device as set forth in claim 1 including,

3 a member carried for slidable adjustment upon each of the upper free ends of the flaps opposite the fold, and in which said portions of textile material are fastened to said slidable-membe'r's remote from theflaps.

3. A display device as set forth in'clairn 2 in which slidable member is closed at the top by stitching which serves to attach the textile material thereto.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS Shepard 243 Lichter 2279 X Gilgenbach 2279 Weyman 2279 Johnson 2279 JORDAN- FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner. 

1. A DISPLAY DEVICE FOR SUIT POCKETS AND THE LIKE INCLUDING, A POCKET INSERT PORTION CONSTRUCTED OF RELATIVELY STIFF FLEXIBLE MATERIAL AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY RECTANGULAR IN SHAPE, SAID POCKET INSERT PORTION HAVING A PERMANENT FOLD AT AN ANGLE IN AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION TO FORM FIRST AND SECOND FLAPS WITH OFFSET SIDE EDGES ON EACH SIDE THEREOF, A SIDE EDGE OF SAID FIRST FLAP BEING OFFSET WITH RESPECT TO SAID SECOND FLAP AND FORMING AN ACUTE ANGLE THEREWITH, OF SAID SECOND FLAP AND FORMING AN ACUTE ANGLE THEREWITH, THE ACUTE ANGLE FORMED BETWEEN SAID SIDE EDGE, THE OTHER HAVING ITS APEX AT THE FOLD, SIDE EDGE OF SAID SECOND FLAP BEING OFFSET EXTENDING UNDER THE ADJACENT SIDE EDGE OF SAID FIRST FLAP FORMING AN ACUTE ANGLE THEREWITH COMPARABLE TO SAID FIRST ACUTE ANGLE ALSO HAVING ITS APEX AT THE FOLD SAID INSERT PORTION BEING OF SUCH WIDTH AS TO BE RECEIVED WITHIN A SUIT POCKET AND HAVING UPPER FREE ENDS OPPOSITE THEFOLD, AND A SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL PORTION OF TEXTILE MATERIAL FOLDED IN THE SHAPE OF A SINGLE PUFF CARRIED BY EACH OF THE FLAPS ACROSS AND ADJACENT THE FREE ENDS THEREOF, EACH PORTION BEING OF A DIFFERENT SOLID CONTRASTING COLOR, WHEREBY THE PUFFS ARE ARRANGED IN OVERLAPPING RELATION WITH ONE PUFF EXTENDING LATERALLY OF THE OTHER AT AN ANGLE CORRESPONDING TO THAT DESCRIBED ABOVE, AND WHEREBY THE DISPLAY MAY BE EASILY POSITIONED AND KEPT IN PLACE IN A SUIT POCKET AND SELECTED SIDES OF TH DISPLAY EMPHASIZED AS DESIRED. 